World Eras and Notes

GM Timeline

This timeline is for GMs and such to use, as a reference for story hooks and the like. It chefily will cover the two Eras of The Age of Gith, and the Age of Steam and Sorcery, as well as giving an overview of Elemental Dawn.

Elemental Dawn (ED) < 0

This is the Dawn of the world. There are no written records of this time. Merely the age of conflict that Elementals of great power wrought across the world.

Battle's Dusk

The War for Elemental Dawn raged for an Eon on the planet, before it finally subsided. When the battle ended none can say for certain, but when the Githyanki first came to the land, the scars of the great conflict were long healed over, and new plant and animal life was begining to grow and prosper on the planet.

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Age of Githyanki (AG) -20,000 — -6,000

This is the Era in which the Githyanki empire from the Astral plane, took rule over the planet.

The Shriek happened, killing a vast majority of the Gith world wide, forcing its survivors to abandon the planet. Thus leaving the slave races to its own devices. Its manuscripts were hidden throughout the world which eventually taught explorer's magic

The Shriek, as it is known to time, happened some -9000 years ago at the end of the Age of the Githyanki. As the slave race established their new planet-wide slaveport, the gods of Faerun inevitably caught wind of the conquest and sought to intervene by interloping into the sphere and combating the Githyanki.

The fighting was swift, but furious. As the Githyanki fought a losing battle against deity level avatars, the conflict forced the slavers to utilize the apocalyptic weapon code-named Astral Spire, which would emit a interplannar, sphere-wide psionic shriek that not only sundered celestial beings, but those psionically able.

The psychic wave swept the sphere, and decimated the avatars like a death of a star, manifesting in a supernova that pushed to the edges of the sphere and coalesced at the borders of the Far Realms.

The Astral Spire, was so powerful, and single in use, that the destruction of the deity's avatars not only were decimated, but also set to linger and ooze out pools of divine power that coalesced like a crater that amassed rain water.

These pools are invisible to the naked eye, even with low magic it cannot be detected and the divine powers of that deity simmered and could be tapped into just as a deity's cleric draws power to refill its spell-slots

The carcass of the Avatars however were not expelled from the sphere, rather- manifested engrams of those deities, echoes of their personas that remained in a pseudo-stasis that mirrored their ideals and tenets

The mortals that worshiped such engrams did not in-fact escape to their deity's heaven, but rather were caught in a programmed illusion of the idea, left to be constricted to its matrix unbeknownst to them, forever swimming in stasis

As The Shriek traveled throughout the known world and at every conflict with Avatars, the encounter manifested Ley lines to erupt into the world, which by design shielded the planet against further interlopers.

The Shriek
-6000

The Shriek, as it is known to time, happened some -9000 years ago at the end of the Age of the Githyanki. As the slave race established their new planet-wide slaveport, the gods of Faerun inevitably caught wind of the conquest and sought to intervene by interloping into the sphere and combating the Githyanki.

The fighting was swift, but furious. As the Githyanki fought a losing battle against deity level avatars, the conflict forced the slavers to utilize the apocalyptic weapon codenamed Astral Spire, which would emit a interplannar, sphere-wide psionic shriek that not only sundered celestial beings, but those psionically able.

The psychic wave swept the sphere, and decimated the avatars like a death of a star, manifesting in a supernova that pushed to the edges of the sphere and coalesced at the borders of the Far Realms.

The Astral Spire, was so powerful, and single in use, that the destruction of the deity's avatars not only were decimated, but also set to linger and ooze out pools of divine power that coalesced like a crater that amassed rain water.

These pools are invisible to the naked eye, even low magic cannot perceive the divine powers of the deities that simmer. The pool could be tapped into just as a deity's cleric draws power to refill its spell-slots

The carcass of the Avatars however were not expelled from the sphere, rather- manifested engrams of those deities, echoes of their personas that remained in a pseudo-stasis that mirrored their ideals and tenets

The mortals that worshiped such engrams did not in-fact escape to their deity's heaven, but rather were caught in a programmed illusion of the idea, left to be constricted to its matrix unbeknownst to them, forever swimming in stasis

As The Shriek traveled throughout the known world and at every conflict with Avatars, the encounter manifested Ley lines to erupt into the world, which by design shielded the planet against further interlopers.
The little surviving Githyanki abandoned the planet shortly after.

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Rediscovery and Rebuilding (RR) -6,000 — 0

After the fall of the Githyanki Empire, and the Abandoning of the slave races upon the planet, things fall into a long dark age. Several hundred years later, rebuilding of small city states, and tiny kingdoms begins, society rebuilding itself from the ruins of Githyanki Tech

Humans, elves, orcs, and other 'standard' races start to rise to dominance.

Age of The Veiled Kings (VK) 0 — 3,428

After small kingdoms boomed and expanded exponentially, the height of the dark ages peaks as wars and rebellions rise and fall, the Draconic Kingdoms reign supreme and result into infighting, eventually dawning the birth of The Three-Kingdoms with the crowned Emperor endorsed by The Golden Kingdom, Versulis of Calaban. Peace restored upon Vafrope as kings and rulers lived mainly isolated from foreign affairs.

The end of this era slowly faded as major kingdoms reopened their borders and embassies with old allies and neighbors.

"Tel'Adoe Ath Trad" The Time of Sculpting
2802-2802

The Bright Court had spent a year raising cities out of monstrous hollow trees and structures that defied logic within the Axylian Realm with ritual magic, however, out of all the creations, two stood out as iconic, Mythnbelne & Nelaeryn.
Tribes of Leonins, Tabaxis and Loxodons were given the chance to share their lives in these wondrous cities and ultimately, willingly indoctrinated by elven culture. At the end of the Time of Sculpting, in light of the ushering a sizeable land fit for the Elven way of life, a large amount of Elven clans from Kalyve and Sleneia, were innately drawn to expanse of the Elven race, sought to enroot themselves into the rich earth and prosper.
During this time, The Bright Court devoted its efforts and considered the two elven cities of Mythnbelne & Nelaeryn as their main base of operations. Thus focusing on exploring the primal untouched forest for more Gith ruins, in hopes to uncover additional manuscripts like the ones that had granted The Great King the means to unravel the wonders of Elven High Magic.
Each six High Mages divided their efforts as they saw fit. Adwain and Leilatha Yesiric, the two Eladrin elves had devoted their time to nurture the three indigenous races into their ways. Aeson Syldan - the male High Elf had ventured east to establish another bastion into what today is known as Tyrael. Alenia Yesdithas the female wood elf sought to find places of power within the land. Rhys Farkas; a female High Elf, devoted her time to the colonial affairs of the waves of incoming elves from abroad. Elandorr Shatris a male Half Elf, narrowed his time to explore the land and uncover more Gith ruins for the people.

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Ella Ath Tel'Nelath “Clash of the Seasons”
2802-2803

Elandorr through his endeavor had uncovered more Gith tablets and logged them in the great libraries of Mythbelne, the majority of the spells known today can be found in the city, etched on otherworldly rocks recovered from Gith dungeons. However, Elandorr’s human blood bestowed onto his ideals the stress for power and influence. Uncovering a particular set of Gith knowledge that surrounded the concept of undeath, and what today is known among High Mages, revolving around a particular ritual which would transform an Elf into a Baelnorn. The ritual today is a secret among High Mages, called Fhaor ‘Akh ‘Tel’Quess however, Elandorr had delved deeper and sought to transform himself as a Baelnorn despite the councils concerns. During the ritualistic practices of his research, great insight was attained (much of which was kept secret to himself) and thus to conjure a majority ruling from within the court, he sought to manipulate Adwain with arcane means.
Unbeknownst to Leilatha, Adwain grew distant, and more inclined to the endeavors of Ellandorr. This invoked a series of heated debates from within the council that later erupted into magi warfare which was waged in secret among the woods.
Ultimately, Ellandorr was left without choice but to invoke the terrible ritual magic that would decimate the area of what today is known as Or Ath Orar. The magic destroyed approximately 122 thousand square miles of land and forest. Thus invoking the evil creatures called Minotaurs. The magic had also sundered various elven towns which reduced them to ruins, along with the Spring Eladrin Leilatha.

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Tel'Keruth Ath Tel'Ennamar Ari “The War of the Last Spring”
2803-2938

With the expeditious death of Leilatha, Adwain, thanks to his Elven connection to his lover, became struck with a momentous wave of grief. The surge shook him to the core and dispelled the ritual magic that had swayed him to fall in line with Ellandorr’s schemes. Thus the Last Spring has come, and the trinity of High Mages sought to find Elandorr and outright kill him for his treachery.
In defense, Ellandorr conjured the same magic, although less intense than previously conjured, to sway the Elves that had migrated into the Axylian Realm. Hoping to muster a sizable portion take his side and defend his ideals, presenting the concept of undeath for every single defender upon victory.
This domestic war for the Elves took 135 years and today is never talked about openly as it shames all Elves of such individualistic warmongering strife.
The strife had inevitably reached the Great King’s ear, Nhaeath’she quor; thus prompting an intercept and outright tip of the scale of the war of The Last Spring. Abruptly ending it in a swift manner, and the capture of Ellandorr, who would be put to trial.

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Tel' Avae'Mhaor Ath Al Thiraminitae “Echoes of Frigid Sorrows"
2938-2939

Though much of the Bright Court had wished death upon Ellandorr, thus Cor’Quessir Nhaeath’she quor had opted for a fate worse than death. Subjugating Ellandor to banishment from Elven culture and society and single target of the Akh’Faen’Tel’Quess which would be used as a punishment. Stripping him of Elven blood and turning him into a human.
Ellandorr would take the title of Oracle within Calaban and span his web of treachery outside of the Elven realm.
After the resolution of the War of the Last Spring, Cor’Quessir Nhaeath left the Axylian Realm to proceed.
Adwain was grief-stricken and battered by the never ending pain of his lost lover through his weak willed resilience. Thus the entire Axylian Realm wept for Leilatha, and herald this time as the Echoes of Frigid Sorrow, where the people grieved through reverie and miraculously manifest emotional Echoes that stand to this day within the land.

Adwain had slowly withered within the domains of Mythnbelne, creating a mausoleum to Leilatha within the city and inevitably died from such onslaughts of sorrows. Elven songs to this day echo the pain of an Elf who was orchestrated to destroy his lover, and died from grief.

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Tel'Alus Tasa "The Thaw"
2940-2982

After the collapse of the two Eladrin Elves from within the area, The realm evidently collapsed and separated as the two remaining High Mages each, Alenia Yesdithas and Rhys Farkas sought to direct the new council of great clans which migrated in the two kingdoms, better instructing their governance to rebuild and reconsolidate with the survivors of such time to hopefully blossom into thriving kingdoms.

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Tel'Adoe Ath Ennama Time of Sowing
2982-3048

With the recovering duo kingdoms planting their seeds onto the world, the indigenous races had grown accustomed to elven life and mindset, thus great plans blossomed into fruition and prospect. The Time of Sowing had schooled many prospects into the world, and the kingdoms closed its borders to better cultivate and tend to the people’s needs.

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Draconic Bloodsport Season
3405-3405

As the Verdant Period persisted in the Savannah, its neighboring Draconic kingdoms saw the land flourish with game, so much so that it enticed most dragons to make journey to the Savanna to pluck the abundance of resources for their own entertainment majorly.
In the midst of a dispute as to who would earn the hand of the daughter of Shani the Green, many Dragonkin of The Kingdom of Chromatics and Green Dragon Kingdom made journey down to the Duchys of Aisenberg, Frothese and the Savannah to wreak the most havoc in the shortest time, which lasted a whole year. This resulted in a mass genocide of the human population of the effected areas, along with a enormous growth in Dragonborn and half-Dragons in the future.
The Golden Kingdom caught wind of the Draconic Bloodsport and sought to make haste, to end the bloodshed while sowing the seeds to a prosperous ally.

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Rebellion of the Pitchforks
3405-3406

After an almost an year of bloodshed and slaughter, small groups of insurgents began to sprout as bitter resent grew in the hearts of every human in the three kingdoms, and soon a full on rebellion was at hand, the anger of Dragons and magic had reached fanatical levels where the rebels would not differentiate between who they directed their hatred towards, even denizens and envoys of the Golden Kingdom suffered death at the hands of the Pitchforks.
The rebellion lasted, to the surprise of the Draconic Kingdoms, these humanoids managed to organize a formidable resistance, carrying out insurgent strikes within Draconic borders. Many humans and Dragonborns rose to lieutenancy, but one human stood out as a hero of the people, known as Versulis of Calaban.

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Age of Versulis Calaban
3406-3427

Versulis of Calaban was a human male with a small manifestation of Draconic sorcery, he was a tall blonde man with true grit and a tactical mind, a gentle, humble heart. Versulis won the hearts of the people, and bestowed in each person he met, the will to rise above tyranny of evil. Leading the rebels by example, it wasn't long until Prince Cedric caught wind of this human, and sought to locate the rebel lieutenant to propose an offer, thus ending the year long rebellion abruptly, Versulis later rose the Emperor of the entire three kingdoms, and a strong ally of the Golden Kingdom. The region that is now known as Duchy of Calaban now flourishes, and is the seat of political power of its own kingdom, the Duchy of Frothese and Aisenberg.

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The Magi Purge
3425-3427

After an orchestrated a Magi Terror attack on the capital of Calaban. Tens of innocent commoners died in the attack, this event alone had armed Versulis of Calaban issued a nationwide ban on magic and a witch hunt to apprehend and purge all Magi users, as the power they wield cannot be trusted, and just like the time of Draconic Bloodsport, innocents were caught in its aftermath and the Emperor would not stand for it.
Sightings of the Iron Wraith are reported to carry out the operations, the prelude of the purge would take place on the Magi Academy in Calaban, a place where children and young gifted individuals practices their magical affinity in a controlled environment, a massacre ensued. The Iron Wraith had left none alive, guiding the blades of a thousand Reichsguard to silence all denizens of the academy, it was only the beginning as soon blockades and checkpoints throughout the kingdoms would be raised to pick out runaway Magis.
After the academy and the condemnation of thousands, the Iron Wraith mysteriously disappeared however his name is still spoken of in darkened tavern in hush tones.
The Magi Purge lasted two years, Versulis mysteriously never lived out to see its progression, House Vandrel ended the purge in 3427 for reasons unknown, but the two years ever had left scars sowed so deep that it forever changed its people.

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The Deathsmarch
Winter of 3428

The coalition of the Northern Realms of Novus united under the command of Jordphan Esimus, a human in his sixties made his move to display his undeniable immense power to his neighbors in the realm, crowning himself as the Unseen King and his subjects the Deathsmarch. His armies initiated their descent onto the southern kingdoms after deciphering ancient eldritch manuscripts left behind by the Githyanki. Their onslaught decimated the kingdom of Kinargzad and later began to spread to many kingdoms of the south, until the moment refered to "Advent of Paragons" a new age where gods walked among men and provided aid to push back against the enveloping darkness.

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Age of Paragons & Sorcery (PS) > 3,445

This is the era the players are in. The beginning of this era starts 27 years after the Deathsmarch that came with the advent of (insert technomagic here) by Leyairah of house Vandrel from Osirus, Tyrael.

A new age of prosperity was ushered in on the Western continent. Wars were still fought, and people still died, but people within the civilized kingdoms enjoyed a standard of living far above that of any prior or future eras.

The current year is 3447

World Eras and Notes

Elemental Dawn (ED) < 0

Battle's Dusk

Age of Githyanki (AG) -20,000 — -6,000

The Shriek

Rediscovery and Rebuilding (RR) -6,000 — 0

Age of The Veiled Kings (VK) 0 — 3,428

"Tel'Adoe Ath Trad" The Time of Sculpting

Ella Ath Tel'Nelath “Clash of the Seasons”

Tel'Keruth Ath Tel'Ennamar Ari “The War of the Last Spring”

Tel' Avae'Mhaor Ath Al Thiraminitae “Echoes of Frigid Sorrows"

Tel'Alus Tasa "The Thaw"

Tel'Adoe Ath Ennama Time of Sowing

Draconic Bloodsport Season

Rebellion of the Pitchforks

Age of Versulis Calaban

The Magi Purge

The Deathsmarch

Age of Paragons & Sorcery (PS) > 3,445